Acting with the approval of the Pingwu County People's Procuratorate, police arrested Yang Tianyong, 40, a peasant from Heping Village who killed a giant panda with a bow and arrow Jan. 13, the paper said.

Hunting pandas is a criminal offense that carries a prison sentence. There are only an estimated 1,000 giant pandas still surviving in the wild. The paper said county police also arrested two peasants who shot two antelope.